Principal Architect (Remote)

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change.

At Availity, we're not just another Healthcare Technology company; we're pioneers reshaping the future of healthcare! With our headquarters in vibrant Jacksonville, FL, and an exciting office in Bangalore, India, along with an exceptional remote workforce across the United States, we're a global team united by a powerful mission.

We're on a mission to bring the focus back to what truly matters – patient care. As the leading healthcare engagement platform, we're the heartbeat of an industry that impacts millions. With over 2 million providers connected to health plans, and processing over 13 billion transactions annually, our influence is continually expanding.

Join our energetic, dynamic, and forward-thinking team where your ideas are celebrated, innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts. We're transforming the healthcare landscape, solving communication challenges, and creating connections that empower the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem.

The Principal Data Architect works hands-on with the business and technology groups to design, blueprint, and supervise the development of enterprise data solutions enabling analytic & data science use cases. The architect is responsible for delivering easily understandable, accessible, well-governed and secured data aligned to our Data & AI strategies.

Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.

Location: Remote, US

Role qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Information Management.
• Master’s degree preferred but not required
• 10 or more years of experience in information architecture and data solution design
• Strong domain expertise in healthcare business, administrative and clinical data
• Expertise in cloud-based data technologies and relational databases, including Oracle, MySQL, AWS Redshift, and Aurora
• 5 or more years of experience with data engineering technologies, including but not limited to Spark, PySpark, SQL
• Analytical skills with hands-on experience in identifying, quantifying, and effectively raising risks associated with data quality, compliance, retention, and security
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with capability to execute with business and technology stakeholders.
• Expertise in enterprise data architecture design supporting business intelligence, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications
• Experience in data management principles such as data governance, data security, data quality
• Hands-on experience with data modeling for data lakes and data warehouses, to support large-scale structured, semi-structured and unstructured data
• Hands-on experience developing scalable data engineering pipelines
• Familiar with healthcare data standards
• Develop data strategies in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders of varying levels

What you will be doing:

• Lead the collaboration with Product Owners and Analytic Architects to understand business and analytic requirements, translate them into meaningful data platform component design requirements

• Architect and deliver data solutions to support complex business intelligence and machine learning solutions

• Direct and contribute to data pipeline development effort for AI/ML use cases

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture team to develop and implement future state data architecture standards, guidelines, and principles for the enterprise

• Assist in implementation and maintenance of enterprise data stewardship, governance, and cataloging of company data and meta data

• Collaborate with the data science and development teams to enable technologies and processes to maintain and improve data quality standards

Availity culture and benefits:

• Availity is a certified “Great Place to Work”, a “Best Workplaces for Technology Companies”, a “Best Workplaces for Women” and a “Best Workplaces for Millennials”!
• Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
• We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates. “AvaiLadies”, “Beyond Black”, “HOLA”, “Availity Pride”, “VetAvaility” a Young Professionals Group and “She Can Code IT” a group for women in tech are some of the groups you can get involved in.
• Availity is a culture of continuous learning. We have many resources and